A Woman of the Iron People is an anthropological science fiction novel by Eleanor Arnason, originally published in 1991. It is a first contact story between peoples from a future Earth and an intelligent, furred race of people who live on an unnamed planet far from Earth.
Along with White Queen, A Woman of the Iron People won the inaugural James Tiptree, Jr. Award. An alternate release of the novel consisted of two chapbooks, In the Light of Sigma Draconis and Changing Women.
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